Processing objects on touch screen devices

ABSTRACT

A computer-implemented method for processing objects on touch screen devices is proposed. According to the method, one or more grid sizes is determined, wherein the one or more grid sizes comprise one or more text grid sizes. The one or more text grid sizes are determined by at least one of character, word, sentence, and section. Based on the one or more grid sizes, the one or more objects on the touch screen could be divided into one or more grids. The objects on the screen could be selected discontinuously by selecting grids on the screen.

BACKGROUND

The present disclosure relates to data processing, and morespecifically, to processing objects on touch screen devices.

Nowadays, with the developing of information technology, touch screendevices, especially touch screen mobile phones, are widely used.However, due to limitations of screen size and original design ofoperation, etc., it is hard for users to perform complex operations ontouch screen devices, and this brings great inconvenience to the users.

SUMMARY

This Summary is provided to introduce objects processing on touch screendevices that are further described herein in the Detailed Description.This Summary is not intended to identify key factors or essentialfeatures of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used tolimit the scope of the claimed subject matter.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provideda computer-implemented method. According to the method, one or more gridsizes are determined, wherein the one or more grid sizes comprise one ormore text grid sizes, wherein the one or more text grid sizes aredetermined by at least one of character, word, sentence, and section.One or more objects on a screen are divided into one or more grids atleast based on the one or more grid sizes.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there isprovided a system. The system includes one or more processors and amemory coupled to at least one of the processors. A set of computerprogram instructions are stored in the memory and executed by at leastone of the processors in order to perform actions. The actions includedetermining one or more grid sizes, wherein the one or more grid sizescomprise one or more text grid sizes, wherein the one or more text gridsizes are determined by at least one of character, word, sentence, andsection. The system divides one or more objects on a screen into one ormore grids based on at least the one or more grid sizes.

According to yet another embodiment of the present disclosure, there isprovided a computer program product. The computer program product istangibly stored on a non-transient machine readable medium andcomprising executable instructions which, when executed on a device,cause the device to determine one or more grid sizes, wherein the one ormore grid sizes comprise one or more text grid sizes, wherein the one ormore text grid sizes are determined by at least one of character, word,sentence, and section. The executable instructions of the computerprogram product divide one or more objects on a screen into one or moregrids based on at least the one or more grid sizes.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

Through the more detailed description of some embodiments of the presentdisclosure in the accompanying drawings, the above and other objects,features and advantages of the present disclosure will become moreapparent, wherein the same reference generally refers to the samecomponents in the embodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 1 shows an exemplary computer system which is applicable toimplement the embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a data processing system in accordancewith embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for processing data in accordance withembodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 4A shows an example of an original text content on a screen inaccordance with embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 4B shows an example of a text content with grids on a screen inaccordance with embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 4C shows another example of a text content with grids on a screenin accordance with embodiments of the present invention; and

FIG. 4D shows a further example of a text content with grids on a screenin accordance with embodiments of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Some preferable embodiments will be described in more detail withreference to the accompanying drawings, in which the preferableembodiments of the present disclosure have been illustrated. However,the present disclosure can be implemented in various ways, and thusshould not be construed to be limited to the embodiments disclosedherein.

Referring now to FIG. 1, in which an exemplary computer system/server 12which is applicable to implement the embodiments of the presentinvention is shown. FIG. 1 is also adapted to depict an illustrativeexample of a portable electronic device such as a communication devicewhich is applicable to implement the embodiments of the presentinvention. Computer system/server 12 is only illustrative and is notintended to suggest any limitation as to the scope of use orfunctionality of embodiments of the invention described herein.

As shown in FIG. 1, computer system/server 12 is shown in the form of ageneral-purpose computing device. The components of computersystem/server 12 may include, but are not limited to, one or moreprocessors or processing units 16, a system memory 28, and a bus 18 thatcouples various system components including system memory 28 toprocessor 16.

Bus 18 represents one or more of any of several types of bus structures,including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, anaccelerated graphics port, and a processor or local bus using any of avariety of bus architectures. By way of example, and not limitation,such architectures include Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus,Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) bus, Enhanced ISA (EISA) bus, VideoElectronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and PeripheralComponent Interconnect (PCI) bus.

Computer system/server 12 typically includes a variety of computersystem readable media. Such media may be any available media that isaccessible by computer system/server 12, and it includes both volatileand non-volatile media, removable and non-removable media.

System memory 28 can include computer system readable media in the formof volatile memory, such as random access memory (RAM) 30 and/or cachememory 32. Computer system/server 12 may further include otherremovable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer system storagemedia. By way of example only, storage system 34 can be provided forreading from and writing to a non-removable, non-volatile magnetic media(not shown and typically called a “hard drive”). Although not shown, amagnetic disk drive for reading from and writing to a removable,non-volatile magnetic disk (e.g., a “floppy disk”), and an optical diskdrive for reading from or writing to a removable, non-volatile opticaldisk such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or other optical media can be provided.In such instances, each can be connected to bus 18 by one or more datamedia interfaces. As will be further depicted and described below,memory 28 may include at least one program product having a set (e.g.,at least one) of program modules that are configured to carry out thefunctions of embodiments of the invention.

Program/utility 40, having a set (at least one) of program modules 42,may be stored in memory 28 by way of example, and not limitation, aswell as an operating system, one or more application programs, otherprogram modules, and program data. Each of the operating system, one ormore application programs, other program modules, and program data orsome combination thereof, may include an implementation of a networkingenvironment. Program modules 42 generally carry out the functions and/ormethodologies of embodiments of the invention as described herein.

Computer system/server 12 may also communicate with one or more externaldevices 14 such as a keyboard, a pointing device, a display 24, etc.;one or more devices that enable a user to interact with computersystem/server 12; and/or any devices (e.g., network card, modem, etc.)that enable computer system/server 12 to communicate with one or moreother computing devices. Such communication can occur via Input/Output(I/O) interfaces 22. Still yet, computer system/server 12 cancommunicate with one or more networks such as a local area network(LAN), a general wide area network (WAN), and/or a public network (e.g.,the Internet) via network adapter 20. As depicted, network adapter 20communicates with the other components of computer system/server 12 viabus 18. It should be understood that although not shown, other hardwareand/or software components could be used in conjunction with computersystem/server 12. Examples, include, but are not limited to: microcode,device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays,RAID systems, tape drives, and data archival storage systems, etc.

Conventionally, as mentioned above, the development of informationtechnology changes people's lives in many aspects, and the wide usage oftouch screen devices, especially touch screen mobile phones, is asignificant aspect. Undoubtedly, touch screen devices bring greatconvenience to users. However, there are still some limitations. Forexample, due to the limitation of screen sizes and original designs ofoperations, it is hard for users to select objects on the screens of thetouch screen devices. It is especially hard to locate and select theobjects accurately. Furthermore, it is not possible to select theobjects discontinuously distributed on the screens.

In order to at least in part solve the above mentioned and otherpotential problems, according to embodiments of the present disclosure,a new approach for easily selecting multiple sections discontinuouslydistributed with more flexibility is proposed.

Some definitions are provided for better understanding of thisinvention. Hereinafter, “grid” refers to a minimum selectable unit on ascreen. Accordingly, “text grid” refers to a minimum selectable unit oftext, and “figure grid” refers to a minimum selectable unit of figure.“Text grid size” refers to a size of the text grid, such ascharacter/word/sentence/section. “Figure grid size” refers to a size ofthe figure grid, such as a whole figure. “Object” refers to a selectablecontent on the screen. “Object unit” refers to all object(s) within agrid. “Predefined text size” refers to a predefined font size used fordetermining the text grid size. “Visual text size” refers to apresentation font size of a text.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of an object processing system 200 inaccordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. The objectprocessing system 200 may include a grid engine 210, a selection engine220, and a memory 230. The grid engine 210 may detect the area beingtouched in the screen and divide objects on the screen into one or moretext grids and/or one or more figure grids. The grid engine 210 may beinitiated in a number of ways, subject to the design of the operationsystem, and a user's usage habit, etc.

In one embodiment, the grid engine 210 can be initiated when a useractivates the object processing system 200, for example, by doubleclicking on the screen. Alternatively, the grid engine 210 can beinitiated automatically when a related software/application is loaded.After being initiated, the grid engine 210 may determine a grid size. Inone embodiment, the grid size is defined by a user directly. In anotherembodiment, the grid size could be defined based on the user's usagehabit, historical data of grid size setting, etc.

In a further embodiment, a predefined text size is determined first todetermine the text grid size. In one embodiment, the predefined textsize could be defined by the user directly. In another embodiment, thepredefined text size could be determined by the object processing system200. For example, the grid engine 210 detects the text area beingtouched, and the font size of the touched area would be recognizedaccordingly. The font size could be recognized as the font size definedby applications, such as Points defined in Microsoft® Word, etc. Itwould be highly appreciated to understand that different applications ortouch screen devices would have their own preferential font size unit.These font size units could be converted according to a font size unitconversion formula. For the purpose of explanation, font size “percent”,which is frequently used as a font size unit, may hereinafter be used toillustrate this invention.

In one embodiment, the predefined text size might be the maximum fontsize within the touched text area multiplied by a screen display scale.For example, if the maximum font size within the touched text area is50%, and the screen display scale is 100%, then the predefined text sizecan be 50%*100%=50%. It is to be understood that the predefined textsize could be set as other size(s), such as minimum font size, or mainfont size on a page. In such a scenario, the text grid size may bedetermined, at least, based on the visual text size and the predefinedtext size. The visual text size may be an actual font size multiplied bythe screen display scale. For example, if the actual font size is 50%,and the screen display scale is 200%, then the visual text size could be50%*200%=100%.

The text grid size could be determined based on the comparison of visualtext size and predefined text size. For example, if the visual text sizeis less than the predefined text size, the text grid size would be asentence; if the visual text size is equal to the predefined text size,the text grid size would be a word; and if the visual text size islarger than the predefined text size, the text grid size would be acharacter. Those skilled in the art would readily appreciate that thetext grid size could be determined based on other rules. In anotherembodiment, if a text is in an analphabetic writing, such as Chinese,the text grid size could be a sentence, a word group, or a word,accordingly. Any suitable technology, either currently known or to bedeveloped, can be applied for setting the text grid size. Those skilledin the art may adjust the setting of grid size, and this would notexceed the scope of this invention.

FIG. 4A shows an example of an original text content on screen inaccordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. There are threeparagraphs of text shown on the screen. After the grid engine 210 isinitiated, the text contents, shown on FIG. 4A, could be processed.

The grid engine 210 detects the text area being touched, and thendetermines a maximum font size of the text within the text area beingtouched. For example, the touching area includes two characters/wordswith one character/word font size being 50% and the other character/wordsize being 40%. In this case, the maximum font size is 50%, and thedisplay scale is 100%. Therefore, the predefined text size would be50%*100%=50%. In the first paragraph, the visual text size is 60%, sothe visual text size is larger than the predefined text size, and thetext grid size would be a character. In the second paragraph, the visualtext size is 50% which is equal to the predefined text size. Therefore,the text grid size of the second paragraph would be a word. In the lastparagraph, the visual text size is 40% which is smaller than thepredefined text size. Therefore, the text grid size of the lastparagraph would be a sentence. As such, the whole content on the screenis divided into multiple grids, as shown on FIG. 4B.

However, a user would need to adjust the text grid size. In oneembodiment, the text grid size could be adjusted by zooming in/out thetext. Referring now to FIG. 4C, by zooming-in the content on the screen,if the visual text size of the second paragraph would be larger than thepredefined text size, then the text grid size of the second paragraphwould be a character too. Also, if the visual text size of the lastparagraph would be equal to the predefined text size, then the text gridsize of the last paragraph would be a word.

Referring now to FIG. 4D, by zooming-out the content on the screen, ifthe visual text size of the first paragraph would be equal to thepredefined text size, then the text grid size of the first paragraphwould be a word. If the visual text size of the second and lastparagraph would be smaller than the predefined text size, then the textgrid size of the last two paragraphs would be a sentence. In thisfashion, the user could adjust the text grid size easily and flexibly.

In a further embodiment, a figure grid size would be determined by thegrid engine 210. In one embodiment, the figure grid size is a size of awhole figure. In another example, the figure could be divided intoseveral figure grids. Any suitable technology, either currently known orto be developed, can be applied to divide the whole figure into severalparts. By this way, one or more parts of the figure could be selected.In the event a figure comprises a text content, the text content couldbe recognized using text recognition technology, such as opticalcharacter recognition (OCR) technology, then the text grid could bedetermined using the method described above.

Now referring back to FIG. 2, after determining the grid size for allcontents on the screen, the selection engine 220 would receive selectioninstructions. A user could select one or more objects for furtheroperation by selecting one or more grids. The user could select a wholeobject unit in a grid by selecting the grid. For example, if onesentence within a grid is to be selected, then the user may successfullyselect the whole sentence by only clicking once on the grid. In afurther embodiment, the selection could be discontinuous, which meansthe user could select the objects located in discontinuous grids. Inthis way, the selection could be very flexible.

Now referring back to FIG. 4D, three non-continuous grids are selected,and the selection would be stored in the Memory 230. Contents withinthese three non-continuous grids could be further processed, such as thecontents could be pasted to another place. In one embodiment, thepasting order could be the order in which these three object unitspresent in the original text. In another embodiment, the pasting ordercould be the order in which these three non-continuous grids wereselected. Alternatively, the pasting order could be determined by theuser directly. In this way, a more flexible method for operating theselected object units is provided.

In a further embodiment, the grid size could be further adjusted orchanged after selecting one or more object units. In one embodiment,after selecting three grids (e.g. 401, 402 and 403 in FIG. 4D), thevisual text size could be further adjusted by zooming in or zooming outthe contents on the screen. The user could adjust the text grid sizeagain, in this way, and select another one or more grids. For example,if after selecting object units 401 and 402, the user wants to furtherselect a sentence in the first paragraph, then user could zoom out tochange the text grid size of the first paragraph to sentence, and asentence in the first paragraph could be easily selected. In this way, amore flexible method for selecting contents on the screen is provided.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for processing one or more objects inaccordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. The method startsat S301, wherein the grid engine 210 may determine a predefined textsize. In one embodiment, the predefined text size is defined by a userdirectly. In another embodiment, the predefined text size is determinedby the system based on a previous predefined text size and a machinelearning technology. Alternatively, the predefined text size isdetermined based on a font size on the screen. In one embodiment, thegrid engine 210 may detect an area being touched when a user touches thescreen, then the font size of the touched area would be recognized,wherein the font size could be the font size defined by applications,such as Points defined by Microsoft® Word, etc. In a further embodiment,the predefined text size could be the visual size of the text, which isthe font size multiplied by screen display scale. In a furtherembodiment, the predefined text size could be the maximum visual textsize among the text being touched. For example, if the maximum font sizeis 50%, and the screen display scale is 100%, then the predefined textsize is 50%*100%=50%. In another example, if the maximum font size amongtouched area is 50%, and the screen display scale is 120%, then themaximum visual text size is 50%*120%=60%. As such, the predefined textsize would be 60% here. It is to be understood that the predefined textsize could be set as others size, such as the minimum font size, or themain font size among the touched text area.

The method moves to Step S302, wherein the text grid size might bedetermined, at least, based on the visual text size and the predefinedtext size. The visual text size could be the actual font size multipliedby the screen display scale. The text grid size could be determined atleast based on the comparison of the visual text size and the predefinedtext size. For example, if the visual size of text is less than thepredefined text size, the text grid size would be sentence; if thevisual size of text is equal to the predefined text size, the text gridsize would be word; and if the visual size of text is larger than thepredefined text size, the text grid size would be character.Furthermore, if a whole section needs to be set as text grid size, thena special gesture, for example, zooming out the text at the minimumscale status, could be used to set a section as a text grid size. Inanother embodiment, for the analphabetic writing such as Chinese, theword group recognition technology could be used to identify each wordgroup in the screen. In this way, the text grid size could be set asword group as well. Those skilled in the art would readily appreciatethat the text grid size could be determined based on other rules, andthis would not exceed the scope of this invention.

Now referring to FIG. 4A, a further illustration may be provided. FIG.4A shows an example of an original text content on a screen, inaccordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. Three textparagraphs are shown on the screen. After grid engine 210 is initiated,the text content in FIG. 4A could be processed.

The grid engine 210 detects a text area being touched, and thendetermines the maximum font size of the text area being touched. Forexample, the touched area includes two characters: one character sizebeing 50% and the other character size being 40%. In this case, themaximum font size is 50%, and the display scale is 100%, so thepredefined text size would be 50%*100%=50%. In the first paragraph, thevisual text size is 60% which is larger than the predefined text size.Therefore, the text grid size would be character. In the secondparagraph, the visual text size is 50% which is equal to the predefinedtext size. Therefore, the text grid size of the second paragraph wouldbe word. In the last paragraph, the visual text size is 40%, which issmaller than the predefined text size. Therefore, the text grid size ofthe last paragraph would be sentence. As such, all contents on thescreen are divided into multiple grids as shown in FIG. 4B.

In another embodiment, if a user would need to adjust or change the textgrid size, the text grid size could be changed by zooming in/out thetext on the screen, so that the relationship of visual text size andpredefined text size would be changed accordingly. Now referring to FIG.4C, by zooming in the text on the screen, the visual text size of thesecond paragraph would be larger than the predefined text size, then thetext grid size of the second paragraph would be character too, and thevisual text size of the last paragraph would be equal to the predefinedtext size, then the text grid size of the last paragraph would bechanged to word accordingly. Referring to FIG. 4D, by zooming out thetext on the screen, the visual text size of the first paragraph would beequal to the predefined text size, then the text grid size of the firstparagraph would be changed to word, and the visual text size of thesecond and last paragraph would be smaller than the predefined textsize, so the text grid size of the last two paragraphs would besentence. In this way, the user could adjust the grid size easily andflexibly.

Now referring back to FIG. 3, if there is a figure that needs to beselected, the method would go forward to S303 to determine a figuregrid. In one embodiment, the figure grid could be a whole figure, whichmeans a figure would be determined as an object unit to be put in thefigure grid. In another embodiment, the figure grid could be a part offigure. In some embodiments, there is text(s) in the figure(s) whichalso needs to be processed. The text could be recognized by using anyfigure recognition technology, such as OCR technology. In this fashion,the text grid size of the text(s) in the figure(s) could be determinedjust like the text in the other part.

Although the step S303 shown in FIG. 3 is performed after the step S301,it is to be noted that the relationship of the sequence of the stepS301/S302 and the step S303 are not limited thereto, but may bearbitrary. It is also possible to perform the step S303 prior to thestep S301/S302. Without an explicit definition of order, the stepsdefined in claims should not be interpreted with limitation of anyspecific order. Although step 301/302 and step 303 are all shown in FIG.3, however if there is only text or figure on the screen, those skilledin the art could understand that step 303 or step 301/302 would not benecessary, accordingly.

In step S304, wherein the text grid(s) and/or the figure grid(s) couldbe selected, a whole object unit within a grid could be selected by onetime. For example, if the text grid is sentence, a whole sentence couldbe selected by clicking once on the grid, and the user does not need tolocate the beginning and ending of the selection. In this way, it wouldbe easier and faster to choose the object(s), and the text grid(s)and/or figure grid(s) could be selected discontinuously. As such theuser could flexibly select what s/he wants.

After confirming the selection in step S305, the selection could bestored in Memory 230 in step 306. In a further embodiment, the selectionorder could be stored in Memory 230 too. For example, the selectionorder as shown in FIG. 4D would be stored in Memory 230 with the threeobject units too.

Then the method goes to step S307, wherein whether a further selectionneeds to be made is determined, and if the further selection needs notto be made, the method goes to step S309 directly. If the furtherselection needs to be made, the method goes to step S308 to furtherdetermine if zooming in or zooming out is to be performed to change thevisual text size of the text. If zooming in or zooming out is to beperformed, the method goes back to S302, wherein a new text grid sizewould be determined. In this way, after saving the previous selection,the text grid size could be redefined to make selection of the text moreflexibly. For example, after selecting three object units, the userdecides to select the whole section of the last paragraph, then usercould zoom out the screen at the minimum status to change the text gridsize as section, then user could select the whole content of the lastparagraph by clicking the grid once after selecting three object units.In this way, the selection of the content would be very flexible, and ifzoom in or zoom out is not to be performed to change the visual textsize of text, then the method goes back to S304, wherein the user couldjust make a further selection without changing the text grid size.

After step S307, if no more selection is needed, the method goes to stepS309. After all selections are made, the selected object units could befurther processed as needed, for example they could be pasted intoanother document/application/software. In one embodiment, the order ofthe pasting could be the selected object units' presentation order inthe screen. Alternatively, the order of the pasting could be the orderof selecting. As another alternative, the order of the pasting could bedetermined by the user. In this way, the user could select and processthe selected content easily and flexibly.

The present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computerprogram product at any possible technical detail level of integration.The computer program product may include a computer readable storagemedium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereonfor causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.

The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that canretain and store instructions for use by an instruction executiondevice. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but isnot limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device,an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, asemiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of theforegoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of thecomputer readable storage medium includes the following: a portablecomputer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), aread-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROMor Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portablecompact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD),a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically encoded device such aspunch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructionsrecorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. Acomputer readable storage medium, as used herein, is not to be construedas being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freelypropagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagatingthrough a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulsespassing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmittedthrough a wire.

Computer readable program instructions described herein can bedownloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computerreadable storage medium or to an external computer or external storagedevice via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, awide area network and/or a wireless network. The network may comprisecopper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wirelesstransmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/oredge servers. A network adapter card or network interface in eachcomputing/processing device receives computer readable programinstructions from the network and forwards the computer readable programinstructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium withinthe respective computing/processing device.

Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations ofthe present invention may be assembler instructions,instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions,machine dependent instructions, microcode, firmware instructions,state-setting data, configuration data for integrated circuitry, oreither source code or object code written in any combination of one ormore programming languages, including an object oriented programminglanguage such as Smalltalk, C++, or the like, and procedural programminglanguages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programminglanguages. The computer readable program instructions may executeentirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as astand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partlyon a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. Inthe latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user'scomputer through any type of network, including a local area network(LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to anexternal computer (for example, through the Internet using an InternetService Provider). In some embodiments, electronic circuitry including,for example, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gatearrays (FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute thecomputer readable program instructions by utilizing state information ofthe computer readable program instructions to personalize the electroniccircuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.

Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference toflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus(systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of theinvention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchartillustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in theflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented bycomputer readable program instructions.

These computer readable program instructions may be provided to aprocessor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, orother programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, suchthat the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computeror other programmable data processing apparatus, create means forimplementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or blockdiagram block or blocks. These computer readable program instructionsmay also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can directa computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or otherdevices to function in a particular manner, such that the computerreadable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises anarticle of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects ofthe function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram blockor blocks.

The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto acomputer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other deviceto cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer,other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computerimplemented process, such that the instructions which execute on thecomputer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement thefunctions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block orblocks.

The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate thearchitecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementationsof systems, methods, and computer program products according to variousembodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in theflowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portionof instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions forimplementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternativeimplementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of theorder noted in the Figures. For example, two blocks shown in successionmay, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks maysometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon thefunctionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of theblock diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocksin the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implementedby special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specifiedfunctions or acts or carry out combinations of special purpose hardwareand computer instructions.

The descriptions of the various embodiments of the present inventionhave been presented for purposes of illustration, but are not intendedto be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Manymodifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skillin the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the describedembodiments. The terminology used herein was chosen to best explain theprinciples of the embodiments, the practical application or technicalimprovement over technologies found in the marketplace, or to enableothers of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodimentsdisclosed herein.

What is claimed is:
 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:determining one or more grid sizes, on a touchscreen, wherein the one ormore grid sizes comprise one or more text grid sizes, wherein the one ormore text grid sizes are; based on text size display and page zoompercentage, and wherein determining the one or more grid sizes furthercomprises: determining a predefined text size; determining one or morevisual text sizes; and determining the one or more text grid sizes basedon a comparison of at least the predefined text size and the one or morevisual text sizes, wherein when the visual text size is less than thepredefined text size, the text grid size encompasses a sentence; whereinwhen the visual text size is equal to the predefined text size, the textgrid size encompasses a word; and wherein when the visual text size islarger than the predefined text size, the text grid size encompasses acharacter; dividing one or more objects on a screen into one or moregrids based on at least the one or more text grid sizes; detecting atext area being touched in the one or more text grid sizes; determininga maximum font size of text within the text area being touched, whereinthe maximum font size of text is based on the text size display and thepage zoom percentage; adjusting the one or more text grid sizes based onthe text area being touched; selecting entire contents of the one ormore text grid sizes by a single touch; selecting one or more objects,by one or more touches, that are discontinuously distributed on thescreen, wherein the one or more objects comprise all objects within theone or more grids; and storing the selected one or more objects, and itsrespective sequence, in memory for further operation.
 2. The method ofclaim 1, further comprising: determining one or more changed text gridsizes.
 3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining one or more changedtext grid sizes further comprises: determining one or more changedvisual text sizes; and determining the one or more changed text gridsizes based on a comparison of at least the one or more changed visualtext sizes and a predefined text size.
 4. The method of claim 1, whereindetermining the one or more grid sizes further comprises: determiningone or more figure grid sizes; recognizing one or more texts in one ormore figures associated with the one or more figure grid sizes; anddetermining the one or more text grid sizes of the one or more texts inthe one or more figures.
 5. The computer system of claim 1, furthercomprising: processing the selected one or more object units, that arediscontinuously distributed and selected on the screen, according to anorder of selecting the one or more object units.
 6. The computer systemof claim 1, wherein the one or more text grid sizes are selected from agroup consisting of a character, a word, a sentence, and a section.